12 Answers to Committed Carnivore’s (or reluctant vegetarian’s) Questions “How do you know someone is a vegan?” the saying often goes, “they’ll tell you.” I’m not a vegan and sometimes I don’t even think I am that good of a vegetarian. But I have read a good deal about it now, and I do recognize […]

(By Anne Staley) In almost every walk of life, there are those who lead and those who follow. The case is no different when it comes to ‘environmental sustainability’. While it is the endeavor of every town and city in the US to live by the principles of sustainability (or at least that’s the assumption), clear […]

As part of the first major update since its 1986 completion, the iconic Crescent in Dallas will become more open to the city around it. A goal of the $30 million renovation is opening the nearly 11-acre self-contained complex up to the neighborhood, creating a vibrant gathering space for the community and a destination for […]

(By Greg Laemmle) Laemmle Theaters began as a chain of neighborhood theaters in 1938. Families would walk together to the theater and meet their neighbors on the way. Local retailers who were a part of the community reaped the benefits of this plentiful foot traffic. More than 75 years later, we still see encouraging Angelenos to […]

Sustainable City News editor Richard Risemberg has just released an e-book of selected essays on community and place. Through the medium of Los Angeles, he explores how the way we travel, live, and shop shape our lives and our souls, and reveals the richness of experience he finds in city living. Among the subjects covered […]

Last night, I left my airy Art-Deco apartment in Los Angeles’s Miracle Mile for the half-mile stroll to LACMA, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. LACMA hosts music and film as well as painting, photography, and sculpture, and on Sunday nights it has, for the past twenty-five years, presented classical music concerts in its […]

by Richard Risemberg July 2013–The Los Angeles County Museum of Art recently announced yet another winner in its seemingly accursed search for a new campus—a search that has been going on for too long now—or perhaps not long enough. The museum’s original buildings, a gathering of stately if terminally banal colonnaded cubes just west of […]

When I was in graduate school and working at the City of Akron, officials there made a trip to San Antonio to see how that city had developed its River Walk. Many cities in the United States had canals, but that mode of transportation was replaced in the mid 19th century by railroads. More than a […]

(By Greg Laemmle) Laemmle Theaters began as a chain of neighborhood theaters in 1938. Families would walk together to the theater and meet their neighbors on the way. Local retailers who were a part of the community reaped the benefits of this plentiful foot traffic. More than 75 years later, we still see encouraging Angelenos to […]

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By Richard Risemberg September, 2011–Los Angeles has been without a National Football League team for many many years now, having lost both the Rams and Raiders to other cities. In truth, the void has not really been noticeable, except in the traffic congestion that does not occur on what would be game days, and the city’s economy […]

By Richard Risemberg February, 2003–Recently, Los Angeles suffered another outbreak of stadiumitis (medical name is subsidy entitlement delusional disorder). It’s a disease that causes rich people to run around City Hall screeching repeatedly that if they are only given money, tax breaks, and infrastructure improvements in exchange for building a private, for-profit stadium, the city […]

The Ecological Footprint of the world — a measure of people’s demand on nature — has begun climbing again after experiencing a 2.1 percent decline in 2009 during the recession, according to Global Footprint Network’s 2015 Edition of the National Footprint Accounts, released today. The world’s Ecological Footprint increased nearly 4 percent in 2010 and […]